{"id":480976,"date":"2026-06-17T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480976\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:23:08","slug":"j-d-vance-grilled-on-the-view-and-his-trump-defense-implodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/480976\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance Grilled on ‘The View,’ and His Trump Defense Implodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tVice President J.D. Vance<\/a> is watching his future political prospects dim as he continues to stand by President Donald Trump<\/a>. A disastrous foray into Iran, an economy in turmoil, an administration riddled with the kind of corruption that will rebound for decades in court cases and investigations. Faced with the prospect of becoming even more entrenched as an avatar for the failures and broken promises of Trump\u2019s second presidency, Vance is embarking on a media tour to try to remind people that they supposedly liked him at some point, starting with an appearance on The View<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ladies of The View have long been some of the favorite foils of Trumpland, and it turns out the hosts of ABC\u2019s flagship talk show came prepared to spar. Vance seemed unprepared to actually defend the actions of his government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe hosts repeatedly questioned the vice president about Trump failing to follow through on his campaign promises \u2014 on everything from the economy to the Epstein files \u2014 instead focusing on his own self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne issue comes up time and time again, and it\u2019s the economy. Inflation is up, wages are down, gas prices are starting to drop at news of this Iran deal, which we will get to,\u201d host Alyssa Farah \u2014 who worked in the first Trump administration \u2014 asked. \u201cWhat can you say to voters who trusted you to lower costs on day one, and will they be satisfied by November?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVance responded that that would ultimately \u201cbe up to the voters,\u201d and bragged that the skyrocketing price of oil and gas \u2014 triggered by Trump\u2019s war with Iran \u2014 has begun to come down. When the hosts referenced the president\u2019s recent \u201cI love the inflation,\u201d comments, a response to recent economic reports showing sharp spikes in consumer inflation, Vance defended the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat he said is that he loves the fact that the inflation is going to come down when this war is over,\u201d Vance claimed. \u201cWhat he said is, \u2018I love the inflation, because it\u2019s going to come down when the war is over.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tTrump did not<\/a>, in fact, say that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAre you his interpreter or are you his vice president?\u201d Joy Behar asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NAVARRO: Trump said he loves the inflation<\/p>\n

JD VANCE: What he said, Ana, is he loves the fact the inflation is going to come down<\/p>\n

WHOOPI: That’s not what he said<\/p>\n

BEHAR: Are you his interpreter, or his vice president? Come on pic.twitter.com\/VNXTzb9NOv<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe hosts also questioned Vance on the president\u2019s lavish spending on monuments to himself, half-assed restoration projects in Washington, D.C., and elaborate events for his corporate supporters like the UFC fight <\/a>he hosted at the White House over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll these things, why is he doing them when everybody knows that Americans are struggling? What is he spending all this money for,\u201d Behar asked, noting that Trump has referred to the growing financial and affordability crisis as a \u201choax.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVance once again claimed that Trump was being misunderstood, and that his boss had actually claimed that the accusation that Republicans were causing the affordability crisis was a hoax.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLets talk about my book, I\u2019m here to sell books!\u201d Vance exclaimed at one point, after being repeatedly pressed on the Trump administration\u2019s various attempts to bury the Epstein scandal and the president\u2019s reluctance to embrace the transparency promised during his campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd boy, did they talk about his book.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs someone who has admitted to chasing ambition \u2014 which you write about in the book in the past \u2014 but now says your faith brought you back to your priorities,\u201d co-host Sara Haines said. \u201cI have to kind of use your own words that sit with me from 2016: \u2018Fellow Christians. Everyone is watching when we apologize for this man.\u2019 [\u2026] So help me find the words to explain to my children what they\u2019re witnessing [from the administration] right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tVance defended his switch up from anti-Trumper to loyal soldier. \u201cThere\u2019s a certain point where you say, you know, I made predictions about this, I ended up being wrong, and in politics, and anything, I think it\u2019s important to say, you know what, I got some things wrong, and I was wrong about him,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHaines wasn\u2019t done, though. \u201cI can tell my kids why it\u2019s important to have borders. It\u2019s much harder to explain when I see someone dragged out of a house who isn\u2019t a violent criminal,\u201d she said, while co-host Ana Navarro suggested that Vance visit the border in person to see how children are being treated in detention centers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVance demurred that there were only 30 seconds left in the segment, to which Navarro responded that he was the vice president and could go long.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HAINES: I can tell my kids why it’s important to have borders. It’s much harder to explain when I see someone dragged out of a house who isn’t a violent criminal<\/p>\n

NAVARRO: I would urge you as a Christian and father to visit detention centers where children are being held<\/p>\n

JD\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/n6GGevIrDG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIn one moment, Haines asked Vance what he was \u201cwilling to excuse in the name of power.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe answer to an increasing number of Americans is \u201ceverything.\u201d Vance has quite publicly capitulated to the president\u2019s every whim throughout his first 18 months in office, even as reports emerge of his private panic<\/a> and frustration over the state of affairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVance at one point insisted that his new book was actually \u201cway less political than you might think.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cYou said you were a lapsed Catholic,\u201d the vice president said to Behar. \u201cI\u2019m a bad Catholic. I think all of us, that\u2019s why we need grace as Christians, is because we recognize that there are certain things we\u2019ve got to work on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut for all his preaching, Vance doesn\u2019t seem all that willing to accept that there are things he needs to work on when it comes to his own politics, and he\u2019s absolutely not ready to diagnose what Trump \u2014 sitting at a sub-40 approval rating less than two years into his term \u2014 should do differently.\u00a0<\/p>\n